Soft Knees - Milestone (Album release)
category: music [glöplog]
Have a go at our latest release!
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"Milestone" is an album we started to make in 2025 on our 15-year anniversary of fruitful collaboration. It took a year to compile and it showcases well our wide variety of styles while keeping our trademark warm and lush overall sound. As usual, aside from friends contributing to quite a few tracks as visiting producers and instrument players, everything else from composing and producing to mastering was done by ourselves.
Instead of being "one-trick pony" album repeating same genre and ideas, each song is its own story and feeling. We have also put a lot of effort into making the album as a whole an enjoyable adventure going through calm and dreamy phases to laidback feeling good stuff, or sometimes even energetic and chaotic banging.
Appropriately to the theme of anniversary and in a way looking back, some of the songs are up to 10 years old drafts, now polished and mixed in with brand new music. This way the album really does recap our musical journey well.
Credits
released June 26, 2026
Composing, producing and mixing: Antti Mäntysaari & Jarno Kilpiä
Mastering: Jarno Kilpiä
Cover photo: Antti Mäntysaari
Cover design and editing: Jarno Kilpiä
Guests:
Ville Rastas (producing "Dew Fields" & "Rush", guitar "Blue Steps" & "Backwoods Romance")
Pekka Kokkonen (composing, producing "Huuru")
Petri Ylitalo (guitar "Image Weaver")
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"Milestone" is an album we started to make in 2025 on our 15-year anniversary of fruitful collaboration. It took a year to compile and it showcases well our wide variety of styles while keeping our trademark warm and lush overall sound. As usual, aside from friends contributing to quite a few tracks as visiting producers and instrument players, everything else from composing and producing to mastering was done by ourselves.
Instead of being "one-trick pony" album repeating same genre and ideas, each song is its own story and feeling. We have also put a lot of effort into making the album as a whole an enjoyable adventure going through calm and dreamy phases to laidback feeling good stuff, or sometimes even energetic and chaotic banging.
Appropriately to the theme of anniversary and in a way looking back, some of the songs are up to 10 years old drafts, now polished and mixed in with brand new music. This way the album really does recap our musical journey well.
Credits
released June 26, 2026
Composing, producing and mixing: Antti Mäntysaari & Jarno Kilpiä
Mastering: Jarno Kilpiä
Cover photo: Antti Mäntysaari
Cover design and editing: Jarno Kilpiä
Guests:
Ville Rastas (producing "Dew Fields" & "Rush", guitar "Blue Steps" & "Backwoods Romance")
Pekka Kokkonen (composing, producing "Huuru")
Petri Ylitalo (guitar "Image Weaver")
Comments etc. very welcome! :)
Listened to track 1 - Moodsetter : WELL MOOD VERY MUCH SET, SIR ! :D
track 2 - was very happy to see glxblt in the credits. WAS NOT disappointed ! =)
To be continued...
track 2 - was very happy to see glxblt in the credits. WAS NOT disappointed ! =)
To be continued...
TomS4wy3R: :D Thanks! Hope the rest was some fun too.
3-South Winds : takes a bit of time to take off, but once it's airborne, works like a charm !
4-Image Weaver : feels like I'm listening to a group of friends jamming together on their various instruments before the concert... VERY pleasant experience, very relaxing yet STILL super interesting. Loved it ! =)
4-Image Weaver : feels like I'm listening to a group of friends jamming together on their various instruments before the concert... VERY pleasant experience, very relaxing yet STILL super interesting. Loved it ! =)
Well you are right about 4th, it was actually something like 8 minutes long originally. Then we took the best part of it (the ending :D) and thats it.
Horrible part was how long I spent chiseling that stereo wave together, as it was all we had from changing the hosts and OS's. :E
Anyway, nice :)
Horrible part was how long I spent chiseling that stereo wave together, as it was all we had from changing the hosts and OS's. :E
Anyway, nice :)
blue steps and rush are my favourite tracks. i'm simple man, i like beats ;)
kimi: awesome. Rush always makes me want to play it on real drums, especially the ride part :D then I do it in air anyway :blush: old drummer habits
great stuff!!
My personal fav is Crawler :)
My personal fav is Crawler :)
Wullon: cool :)
Thanks everyone, the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive for this release!
We are already working on new tracks (of course) :)
We are already working on new tracks (of course) :)
WOW You guys really knocked it out of the park with this one!!!!!!!! :starstruck: Really nice cover image, you guys always manage to make these absolutely gorgeous covers based on photos you take in random parts of Finland, amazing to see you guys back to that!!!!
I made the mistake of drawing while listening so I can't attach names to many of the tracks to review them properly so I'll go backwards:
11. Okay yeah that's levity alright, that synth at 2:40 is prettayyyy nice
10. I found the little motif the played a bit throughout the song that reminds me of either Rama Gardens by Skaven or Nine One One by Wave (I genuinely can't tel :) really cute and funny.
And I'll do the rest later. Anyway real quick I need a character design for Dune, the only idea I have is to give him ORANGE sunglasses and then change them to blue when he becomes brothom because like deserts and H-plus is blue, anything else I should do?
I made the mistake of drawing while listening so I can't attach names to many of the tracks to review them properly so I'll go backwards:
11. Okay yeah that's levity alright, that synth at 2:40 is prettayyyy nice
10. I found the little motif the played a bit throughout the song that reminds me of either Rama Gardens by Skaven or Nine One One by Wave (I genuinely can't tel :) really cute and funny.
And I'll do the rest later. Anyway real quick I need a character design for Dune, the only idea I have is to give him ORANGE sunglasses and then change them to blue when he becomes brothom because like deserts and H-plus is blue, anything else I should do?
Have a infinity sign repeated like our logo on his forehead... B) iDunno!
5-Maximum Aura : nice and funny.
6-Crawler : Crawled it certainly did, but in a very pleasant, classy way. Liked that.
7-Blue Steps : OMG, calm Satriani vibes here ! Plus excellent synths making it even better. Absolutely loved it ! Ideal soundtrack for the end of a hot day. Soft Knees and glxblt is a hell of a combo !
6-Crawler : Crawled it certainly did, but in a very pleasant, classy way. Liked that.
7-Blue Steps : OMG, calm Satriani vibes here ! Plus excellent synths making it even better. Absolutely loved it ! Ideal soundtrack for the end of a hot day. Soft Knees and glxblt is a hell of a combo !
Thanks <3 a lot!